Author: LENTNER, JOSEF FRIEDRICH
Title: Chronica Von Dem GeschloßE Und Der Vesten Ze Lebenberg. Geschrieben Und Mit Bildern Gezieret. Durchgesehen Von Fr. Defregger Und I.V. Zingerle
Description: Meran: Verlag Von Fridolin Plant, N.D.. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Josef Friedrich Lentner. Folio with numerous full-color in-text illustrations, all edges deckle. nd (c. 1880). In Merano, Josef Friedrich Lentner worked on his novellas, novels, and dramatic drafts, and also sat in quiet solitude at Lebenberg Castle, whose Bavarian parlour he decorated with fresco paintings, and there wrote this chronicle of this castle, which was published with all of the decoration of his wonderful water-color miniatures, carefully painted in the most exact reproduction style by means of color pewter printing. In addition to the thoroughly humorous chronicle of Lebenberg Castle, near Merano, the work contains a special chapter on the "Weinspiegel oder des Steh Weins Landbrauch". NB- Josef Friedrich Lentner (1814-1852), painter, poet, researcher of customs and dialect; came from the long-established Munich bookstore Lentner; enthusiastic friend of the Bavarian mountains, but also of Tyrol and South Tyrol. He travelled through the whole of Old Bavaria for 6 years, so that he could say of himself: "I have studied the kitchen notes of the entire nation and could become a tailor and seamstress, wedding loader and gravedigger in all districts without sinning against rite and fashion". Entirely in German.. All text and illustrations are clean, bright, and fresh, pages are supple and complete, in Mylar dust jacket,edges slightly browned. NEAR FINE.. Color Illustrations. Folio 13" - 23" tall. Unpaginated pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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